Value of ultrasound elastography strain rate ratio method in the diagnosis of thyroid lesions
WANG Yuan-yuan
YANG Fang
CHU Jing-jie
Abstract：Objective To study the feasibility of ultrasound elastography strain rate ratio method in the diag-nosis of thyroid lesions .Methods A total of 196 patients with 238 thyroid nodules , were selected for comparing the difference in the diagnosis of thyroid lesions between the ratio method and pathological diagnosis .Results Pathologi-cal diagnosis showed 196 benign nodules , 42 malignant nodules .The ratio method showed 190 benign nodules , 48 malignant nodules;When ratio method took <3.3 as benign ,≥3.3 as malignant , for diagnosis of malignant nodules the specificity of ratio method was 85.71%, the sensitivity was 93.88%.There was no significant statistically differ-ences in the diagnosis results between two methods ( P>0.05 ) .Conclusion Ultrasound elastography strain rate ratio method can effectively identify thyroid lesions , clinically it can be combined with pathological diagnosis to reduce mis-diagnosis rate .
Keywords：Thyroid diseaseStrain rateUltrasound
Publication Date：2014-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 1145-1147 )